Rubber-roller car-fender.



W. M. VALLETTE.

RUBBER ROLLER GAR FENDER.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 28,1907.

Patented May 11,1909.

INIVENTOR Ml/TNESSL (55 ZZZ @176 Zia? a i'b all whom it may concern:

UNI ED; st rrer s'rrrranr Pr on.

WI'LLIAM M. VALLETTE, or SAN rnaNcisoo, CALIFORNIA.

RUBBER-RGLLER CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1909.

Application filed october 23, 190'); Serial No. 399,407..

, ing against the car from being carried under showing onl the car andhaving their legs or arms out off by the wheels.

The principal object of the invention is to Cproduce a car fender whichwill be cheap an easily applied to the cars and which will effectivelypush persons falling in front of the car off the track.

Another object of the invention is to produce a fender that will notseriously in3ure the person even if struck by the fender, a rubberroller being used to receive the impact of the falling person.

In the drawin s, in which the same. numerals are app led to the sameparts throughout, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a car showing thefender attached to it. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the fender thecenter'roller, Fi 3 is a plan of the ender, and Fig. 4 is a rontelevation of one of the rollers and a part of its supporting rod fullsize.

The numeral -1 is ap lied to the cross ties, 2, 2, are the rails, and 3the car.

he numeral 4 is applied to the fender,

and it will be observed that the fender comes down almost to' the track,only an inch or two clearance being allowed, in order that a personstruck by the car cannot possibly The fender has be carried under thesame. a top rail 5which extends entirely across the-front of the car,and a lowe'rcurved rail 6, said latter rail being held in place by meansof arms 7, 7 which extend forwardly from the back rail 8, saidback railbein connected .with the top rail 5 by means 0 the bars 9, 9. In theframe thus formed are journaled' a number of bars 10, each bar carryinga series of rubber rollers 11 the rollers being made of a grade of softrubber to. make them as soft as is consistent with another function theyare called on to carry out. The fender is attached to the car by meansof the hooks 12 of which there are four. These hooks form a convenientmeans forattaching the fender to the carat will and at the same timethey allow the fender to be taken 01f just as easily.

Now it will be noted that if a person falls in the front of a car thatthe rollers. will cause him to at once roll and fall out of the way ofthe wheels, and in a city most of the accidents are due to persons beingstruck by the car when they think themselves clear of the same so theyarenearly always far enough from the es ter of thetrack for the fenderto roll them clear of the track when struck.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters: Patent of the United States is as follows,modifications within thescope of the claim being reserved.

In a car fender, a frame adapted to be secured to the front of a car, asecond frame secured to the first frame and at the bottom thereof andprojecting from the first frame in a plane substantially atnin'ety'degrees therewith, said latter frame being curved outwardly from thefirst frame on its outer edge, a series of rods carried from the upperedge of the first frame to the outer edge of the second frame, the outerrods of the set being inclined so they will be closer at the top) thanat the base thereof, a plurality of her rollers on each of the saidrods, and hooks carried by the first frame and adapted tosecure thefender to a car.

In testimony whereof I have set my hand this 10thday of October A. D;1907, in' the presence ofthe two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM M. VALLETTE.

Witnesses:

W. T. Hess, U. P, GRIFFIN.

